History of the Internet, Web, and Social Media

Telegraph

1792

Device created to transmit and receive messages over long distances

Telephone

1890

Radio

1891

First Computer

1944

Harvard Mark I

Established Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

1957

Information Process Techniques Office is established within ARPA

1962

Bring together researchers to share knowledge

Email

1966

First connection via four interface message processors (IMPS) b/w computers

1968

$563,000 used. @ UC Santa Barbara, Stanford, UCLA, University of Utah

Beginnings of ARPANET

Oct 15, 1969

UCLA and Stanford Research Institute connected with the words "log in."

Apple's First Macintosh Commercial

1984

Apple First Commercial
Computers becoming the norm.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

1986

Responsibility for medium to short term engineering issues

ARPANET changes into the Internet

1990

WORLD WIDE WEB is created

1993

Founded in Switzerland, uses HTTP, based on graphics, text, and sound.

Mosaic Web Browser

1993

Version 1

Firefox

Nov 9, 1994

Version 1

Internet Explorer

Aug 16, 1995

Version 1

Broadband

1996

First Broadband service to hit North America in Canada

Six Degrees

1997

First modern social network

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)

1998

Private-Public partnership, responsible for managing and coordinating Domain Name Systems (DNS)

Google

1998

Wikipedia

2001

LinkedIn

2003

My Space

2003

Safari

Jun 23, 2003

Version 1

Youtube

2005

Twitter

2006

Chrome

Dec 11, 2008

Version 1

Instagram

2010

Pinterest

2010

Snapchat

2011